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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1877
Page
4
A detailed column from New York in February 1877 covers a lavish wedding between a heiress daughter and a Western singer, highlighting wealth, social press, and the groom’s modest fortune. It also discusses blue glass fad, excessive legal fees, Vanderbilts estate disputes, and electoral commission debates shaping political tides in Washington.
The Hon. Zachariah Chandler admires a cartoon where he holds the tail of a flying elephant labeled The Republican Party as it nears a chasm. He jokes that his strong grip would prevent the beast from falling while a bottle lies just out of reach.
Murat Halstead's Met, Henry Watterson and IT Halstead visit a host who boasts the cost of every item in his home. The tale moves from display of wealth to a remarked moral, as guests learn the dollar and cent value of possessions amid walnuts and wine in a drawing room.
Message quoted from correspondence in the Baltimore Bulletin describes Mr Halstead challenging a cabinet maker to reveal the price of a rare workmanship item. The craftsman smiles and suggests Halstead cannot be told, implying a test of cost versus value.
A San Francisco ticket seller and a moon-eyed child from the Orient argue over gold for three Stockton tickets priced at three dollars and a half each. The youth pays entirely in silver, totaling ten dollars and fifty cents, claiming the coins are too smart to spend as gold.
A Washington telegram reports President Grant spent two hours at the Capitol urging action on the treaty with the Sioux to cede Northern Wyoming and the Black Hills. He pressed Congress to finalize the matter to accommodate a large summer emigration, earning cordial thanks from Wyoming and Black Hills settlers for supporting frontier interests.
After years of waiting Wyoming moves toward independence as Congress passes a treaty with the Sioux for Northern Wyoming and the Black Hills, to be signed by the President. Citizens praise Col. W. R. Steele for his role, anticipate mail service Cheyenne to the Black Hills, and redrawn borders placing Black Hills in Wyoming.
Spring Creek mines resume strong activity with 24 workers in drifted diggings Nos 17 to 19 above discovery. Pay dirt yields range from 60 cents to 1.50 per pan, with nuggets 10 to 50 cents from wash above bed rock. No 18 hit pay last week. back channel strike could yield 100 to 200 dollars per timber set.
The piece questions the eight to seven vote of the fifteen member Florida and Louisiana commission and doubts partisan bias. It suggests Judge Bradley merits no special fifteenth credit and finally asserts Oliver P. Morton is the likely fifteenth man who cast the pivotal vote.
The House committee on military affairs backs Mr. Banning's bill to halt new army enlistments until active forces drop to 10,000, reduce cavalry to eight regiments and infantry to sixteen. Republicans oppose. Army Board proposals would shift bureau control from the War Department chief to the General of the Army, drawing objections from the Chiefs of Engineers, Ordnance, and other bureaus.
Military officers report collecting ponies dropped along the route and stolen from the herd between Fort Lincoln and St Paul. They are authorized to sell found ponies and issue deeds to buyers who pay. Rumor says ponies are hidden behind hay stacks. authorities pledge ownership to purchasers.
The Kansas Pacific railroad arranged a coalition with eastern lines to move immigrants via Cheyenne as the gateway to the land of gold. An initial allotment of sixteen passes was secured, ensuring a share of the spring rush through the city and directing all Black Hill travelers to start from Cheyenne.
The Denver News praises Cheyenne as a growing creditable city. It notes improvement from a prior unsightly image, bustling trade, fine new buildings, and growing population due to travelers to the Black Hills. The piece calls Cheyenne the Magic City, a pleasant sight reflecting local pluck and enterprise and a lively western highway town.
Good news for Black Hill residents as all mail matter is now to be sent via the Cheyenne route. A daily mail service between the city and Hat Creek starts March 1, and is expected to extend to Deadwood and nearby points by April 1. The Cheyenne and Black Hills stages run every other day, through service and prompt delivery.
Sioux chiefs Sitting Bull Bull Eagle Suck-of-Rice Yellow Robe were killed by Crow forces while under a flag of truce at Tongue River post. A Sioux squaw identified the dead. twelve chiefs were disarmed after the attack. The incident drew horror from eastern observers as twenty-five Sioux with fifty ponies fled.
A mother recalls curing severe earaches in two children by burning brown sugar on live coals under a tin plate and guiding the smoke into the ear via a funnel. The method reportedly stopped the pain instantly and allowed restful sleep. The account is shared from the Germantown Telegraph.
Mr Benedict a New York university graduate states that Mormons believe rainfall has markedly increased in Utah since settling the territory. He notes the claim is supported by a shift in evaporation ratios from Salt Lake water, from three gallons yielding one to four gallons for the same amount.
A sharp, cautionary article attacking a proposed travel route from Sidney Nebraska to the Black Hills. The piece portrays Sidney as lawless, overcrowded with convicts, with no local government and rampant crime. It warns of disease, extortionate travel tolls, scarce supplies, and dangerous wilderness beyond the Platte River. The author insists the route is unsafe and provable.
Indigenous bands, including Crow scouts, raided cattle near Tongue River posts. They stole mules and ponies, took Black's cattle within two miles of the post, and drove two groups toward distant routes. Maj. Pease and 21 citizens pursued 70 miles, recaptured cattle, and returned them. Diamond R Freight Co. herd of 260 head split. one lot recovered by Crow scouts, nine stragglers found, 108 rest accounted.
Sacks carried by Dillon, killed weeks ago on the Sydney route, were brought to the city Monday. The red devils ripped them open with knives, removed the mail, opened letters, and scattered letters and papers to the four winds.
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